Legal Nigeria

A Federal High Court in Lagos friday ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and stashed in three banks […]

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Lagos has ordered the reinstatement of two sacked lecturers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.The lecturers – Dr. Janet Titilayo Bamgbose and Akeem Adesina Bamigbade – both of the […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday okayed death penalty for offenders as it passed the Anti-kidnapping Bill into law.Tagged “A bill for a law to provide for the prohibition of the act of kidnapping and for other connected purposes”, […]

2016 can be described as an eventful year in the history of the Judiciary. From the arraignment of high profile persons, a contentious Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) election and arrest of some judicial officers to the appointment of an acting […]

  Pre-election cases are usually treated expeditiously. But that is not the case with the one held in Enugu State in 2011 between ex-governor, Sullivan Chime and Chief Alex Obiechina.     As a result, a human rights group, Promoters of […]